Research examining the effect of weak punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to … of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we … systematically vary the combination of existence of weak punishment and norm information. Norm information may refer either to what …

shown that cooperation quickly declines when sanctioning mechanisms are removed. We test if explicitly expressing trust in … communication of trust maintains cooperation upon the removal of centralized (Study 1), thirdparty (Study 2), and peer punishment …

A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead … enforcement, enabling agents to justify selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy by shedding light upon … the importance of social norms and their interplay with punishment. People are often presented with incomplete norm …

a penalty and excuse their selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy in our experiment by …A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead … shedding light upon the importance of social norms and their interplay with punishment mechanisms. We show that the separate …

cooperation behavior and we provide evidence on the microfoundation of this relation. We run a large-scale public goods experiment …

and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …